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    I was in third grade when I stopped believing in Santa Clause. As I listened to my classmates describe the gifts they had received for Christmas, I noticed that my friends from wealthier families got more presents than my friends from poorer families. After some reflection, I decided that the only plausible explanation was that money, rather than elves, determined who ended up on the "nice list." I have always had a strong sense of justice, but over the course of my life it has manifest itself

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    Nicholas Sparks likes to portray all of his work towards love and romance. His comment on society is that all people should be loved no matter what gender or what race you may be. Nicholas Sparks writes novels that gathers around conflicting romances. “Using the power that only love can achieve, to resolve conflicts and live happily ever after.” Sparks heavily emphasizes a theme of reconciling a love lost. His stories The Notebook and The Last Song follow the same ultimate theme, but the route in

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    Sparks’ Style Stylistic elements are used by many authors in different ways. Nicholas Sparks has a clear style that is easy to catch on to. In The Notebook and The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks, the author uses elements to make a comparison through the two stories. The most distinguish elements he uses are symbolism, imagery, and diction. One of the elements Nicholas Sparks uses is symbolism. Sparks includes symbolism in his stories to contribute to the thought of fate. The most significant symbol

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    The Notebook is a romantic novel and movie about an elderly man reading to his wife that has Alzheimer’s disease. She can’t remember her past, so what she doesn’t realize is that he’s reading their love story to her. Noah and Allie are two people who met and fell in love after one long summer, but Allie’s family prevented them from being together. Noah writes to Allie day after day but never gets an answer in return. He tries to move on from Allie, moving away to find work and then later being drafted

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    The Notebook is a 2004 romance based on the best-selling Nicholas’ Sparks novel. In the beginning of the film, there is an elderly woman and man in a nursing home who appear to have little relation. He reads daily to her which gives her a daily routine. What she doesn’t know is that he is actually her husband and is retelling their life story over and over. She has no recollection of these events and memories due to her disease. She has Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout the film, she has several interactions

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    Santa Claus Does Exist So you don’t believe in Santa Claus. It’s understandable. We find ourselves in an age of pure skepticism. We question everything. Science has taken hold of our lives, providing answers for all questions and dismissing anything that cannot be explained as either myth or fiction. So it’s quite understandable why you don’t believe, with no physical proof of his existence. It’s indeed understandable to lose sight of Father Christmas with the transformation of this holiday

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    A Distressed Poet or Just Mentally Unstable? : Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was a very interesting woman she was born in Boston, Massachusetts who did have some personal problems she just couldn’t deal with in her everyday life. Sylvia Plath did end up taking her own life when she was only thirty at the time and she left behind an absolute artistic legacy. Plath’s life was intertwined into her poetry, ironically critics weren’t allowed to offer insights into her agony and her work. She was married

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    fit with the story” said Nicholas sparks who is known for many romance novels. In his writing he uses experiences and people that he is inspired by and puts them in a form of novel that catches the audience's attention. After taking a look at the life and writing of Nicholas Sparks, it is apparent that this writer deserves appreciation as a profound American author. With challenges and achievements Nicholas Sparks has written some of the best romance novels. Nicholas Sparks and his parents never

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    cooking and to create more possibilities for cooking food. There are many other names for molecular cuisine such as molecular gastronomy, avant-garde cuisine, experimental cuisine, modern cuisine, and modernist cuisine. The now late oxford physicist Nicholas Kurti and French chemist Hervé This came up with the term “molecular gastronomy” for the new style of cooking/science they started experimenting with back in the 1980's. People are definitely interested in molecular cuisine but don't know whether

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    Redeeming Santa Claus

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    Santa Claus, is known by many names: Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle and simply "Santa". He is a figure that has been influenced by legend, myth, folklore and most importantly for our purposes today. He wears red, is pulled around on a sleigh by a bunch of reindeer and delivers presents to good children on the 24th of December. The purpose of my post is not to argue about whether or not to teach kids about the full on mythical father Christmas; personally I think it is a bad idea to

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